Document history for user guide
The following table describes the documentation for this release of AWS Elemental MediaLive
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API version: latest
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The existing feature to use the MediaLive schedule to insert ID3 metadata in every segment has been expanded. The CMAFI Ingest output group now supports this feature. | December 20, 2024 | |
The section about ID3 metadata insertion has been completely revised. In addition, information has been added about the existing feature to include ID3 metadata in every segment of an audio-only HLS output. | November 23, 2024 | |
The guide has been updated to include information about this new feature. | November 22, 2024 | |
The section about creating an Instance role has been updated to include two policies that were accidentally omitted. | September 23, 2024 | |
The guide has been updated to identify the types of output groups that support the MPEG-1 Layer II (MP2) codec. This codec has been supported for several years. | September 12, 2024 | |
MediaLive now supports the AV1 codec in some types of output. The guide has been updated in various video-related sections to describe the support. | September 12, 2024 | |
The guide now includes information about MediaLive Anywhere, which lets you run channels on on-premises hardware located in your organization's data center. | September 11, 2024 | |
The guide has been updated to describe the IAM access you need for AWS Elemental MediaLive Anywhere. | September 11, 2024 | |
The MediaLiveReadOnlyPolicy has been created. | July 23, 2024 | |
The section about creating output groups has been completely revised. The revision consolidates the information about gathering data, information about designing the encodes, and the procedure for creating the output group using the MediaLive Console | July 9, 2024 | |
The guide now includes information about how to include accessibility data in captions outputs. | June 25, 2024 | |
The guide now includes information about how to include accessibility data in audio outputs. | June 25, 2024 | |
The guide now includes a section on the recently added feature to insert an image overlay in specific outputs in the channel. This feature supplements the existing feature that lets you insert an image overlay in every output in every output group in the channel. | June 20, 2024 | |
You can now configure how MediaLive performs segmentation in some types of output group, when a SCTE 35 message is inserted into the output. | June 14, 2024 | |
The guide now includes information about the new CMAF Ingest output group. Sections about planning and creating this output group have been updated. Reference information, such as supported video codecs, has been updated. The sections for the following features, which are supported by this output group have been updated: Nielsen ID3 (converting watermarks to ID3), Nielsen watermarks (insertng watermarks). | June 14, 2024 | |
The guide now includes information about the values in the Profile field that you fill in when you create a video output encode. | May 23, 2024 | |
The guide now includes information about the supported video encoding schemes (bit depth, chroma sampling, and so on). | May 23, 2024 | |
Analyze AWS media services and create signal maps, visualizations of the media workflow, between those services. Use the signal maps to generate monitoring alarms and notifications using CloudWatch, EventBridge, and AWS CloudFormation. | April 11, 2024 | |
We have added more alerts to the list of MediaLive alerts. Previously, some alerts were omitted in error. | January 9, 2024 | |
The guide now includes a section on the recently added feature to convert color space using 3D LUT files for color mapping. | December 13, 2023 | |
The guide includes a second section about handling color space. It covers converting and passing through color space when you are working with source video that has dependable color space metadata and that doesn't include an unsupported color space. | December 13, 2023 | |
The MediaLive schedule now supports the ability to insert static image overlays in specific outputs. Previously, MediaLive supported only global insertion — insertion in every output in every output group. | October 25, 2023 | |
The guide has been updated to describe the IAM access you need to set up when enabling the thumbnails feature. | October 25, 2023 | |
IAM access for trusted entity for AWS Elemental Link devices | The section about setting up MediaLive as a trusted entity for a Link device has been revised to clarify that only one operation in Secrets Manager is required. | September 19, 2023 |
The guide has been updated to include information about permissions that the user needs to work with a Link device. | September 11, 2023 | |
AWS Elemental Link device as the source for a MediaConnect flow. | The guide has been updated to include information about how to set up a Link device as the source for a MediaConnect flow. This new functionality is in addition to the existing ability to set up the device as the source for a MediaLive input. | September 11, 2023 |
The guide now includes information about how to detach an input from a channel. | September 7, 2023 | |
AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports the ability to extract KLV metadata from an input and to pass it through in TS outputs. | August 24, 2023 | |
The user guide has been updated to describe the existing feature to transfer a device to another AWS Region. | August 14, 2023 | |
Link devices have added a new feature that lets you associate each device with a specific AWS Availability Zone. | August 1, 2023 | |
The section about SMPTE 2038 now includes previously missing information about extracting SCTE 104 messages. MediaLive has supported SCTE 104 messages since support for SMPTE 2038 was first introduced. | July 31, 2023 | |
The information about permissions for the trusted entity has been updated to include the permissions that MediaLive needs to store thumbnails in Amazon S3. | July 13, 2023 | |
The guide now includes information about the new thumbnails feature that lets you view a preview of the current input for the channel. | July 7, 2023 | |
The CloudWatch metrics for AWS Elemental MediaLive channels and multiplex now support a period as low as 1 second. This enhancement gives you the ability to monitor activity in your channels in real time. | June 26, 2023 | |
The information in this section has been revised. Specifically, we now require TLS 1.2 and we recommend TLS 1.3. | June 24, 2023 | |
The guide has been updated to describe a constraint with setting up a channel with epoch locking when an HLS or MediaPackage output group includes SCTE 35 messages. This constraint applies only to epoch locking. It doesn't apply to regular pipeline locking. | June 24, 2023 | |
The information in this section has been revised. Specifically, we now require TLS 1.2 and we recommend TLS 1.3. | June 24, 2023 | |
The information for using HLS output groups to deliver to MediaPackage using the standard MediaPackage API and using the MediaPackage v2 API have both been revised to correct errors, particularly in the examples for the MediaPackage channel URLs. | May 31, 2023 | |
The information about AWS Elemental MediaLive has been reorganized into three main sections, one in Features, one in the setup topics in the navigation bar, and one in the operations topics in the navigation bar. | May 31, 2023 | |
The section about timecode has been renamed to timecodes and timestamps. The section has also been revised to clarify how timecode works in MediaLive. | May 22, 2023 | |
This section has been revised to clarify some points. Pipeline locking now works with a channel that has multiple inputs (a channel that implements input switching). Inputs must have an embedded timecode. The timecode configuration field in General Configuration for the channel has no effect on pipeline locking. | May 22, 2023 | |
This section has been revised to remove incorrect information. Pipeline locking requires an embedded timecode in the input. But you don't need to set the timecode configuration source to embedded. MediaLive always looks for the embedded timecode. | May 22, 2023 | |
The information about permissions for the trusted entity has been updated to include the actions required to deliver to an AWS Elemental MediaPackage channel that uses MediaPackage v2. For this delivery, you create an HLS output group. | May 17, 2023 | |
The guide includes information about setting up an HLS output group to deliver to a AWS Elemental MediaPackage channel that uses MediaPackage v2. | May 17, 2023 | |
The guide now includes information about setting up input failover to work well with a MediaConnect input that is from a flow that implements source redundancy. | May 12, 2023 | |
Connection fields for downstream system for HLS output groups | There is now information about the fields that control reconnecting to the downstream system for an HLS output group. | May 5, 2023 |
The information about managing channel maintenance has been expanded. | May 4, 2023 | |
The list of supported audio codecs for Link UHD inputs has been updated to include Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital Plus. | April 18, 2023 | |
AWS Elemental Link devices now support AWS resource tagging. | March 27, 2023 | |
The guide now includes a list of the alerts that MediaLive might generate when a channel is running | March 10, 2023 | |
We have corrected the description of how MediaLive handles a pipeline failure (scenario 1) in a standard channel. The text and the diagram have been revised. | March 3, 2023 | |
The section about Nielsen watermarks has been updated to include the new field for specifying a local time zone. | February 20, 2023 | |
The section about setting up MediaLive as a trusted entity has been rewritten. The information has been reorganized. But there are no changes to the underlying rules for setting up a trusted entity. | February 14, 2023 | |
There is an update to the section about identifying permissions that you must assign to users and other AWS identities. The information has been reorganized. But there are no changes to the guidance, or to the list of services and actions. | February 14, 2023 | |
Updated guide to align with the IAM best practices. For more information, see Security best practices in IAM. | February 14, 2023 | |
The chapter includes information that describes how MediaLive handles SCTE 35 messages depending on the ad avail mode and the segmentation descriptor in the message. This information has been corrected to clarify that in splice insert mode, messages with no segmentation descriptor are not treated as ad avails. | February 1, 2023 | |
The guide now includes information about the Dropped Frames metric and the SVQ Time metric. | January 26, 2023 | |
The user guide now includes information about burning the timecode into output video. | January 20, 2023 | |
The guide now includes information about the existing input loss behavior feature. You can customize the way that MediaLive handles media when the video input into the channel is lost. | January 13, 2023 |
Note
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The AWS Media Services are not designed or intended for use with applications or in situations requiring fail‐safe performance, such as life safety operations, navigation or communication systems, air traffic control, or life support machines in which the unavailability, interruption or failure of the services could lead to death, personal injury, property damage or environmental damage.
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A component of MediaLive is licensed under the AVC patent portfolio license for the personal and non-commercial use of a consumer to (i) encode video in compliance with the AVC standard ("AVC video") and/or (ii) decode AVC video that was encoded by a consumer engaged in a personal and non-commercial activity and/or was obtained from a video provider licensed to provide AVC video. No license is granted or shall be implied for any other use. A component of MediaLive is licensed under the mpeg-4 patent portfolio license for the personal and non-commercial use of a consumer for (i) encoding video in compliance with the mpeg-4 visual standard (“mpeg-4 video”) and/or (ii) decoding mpeg-4 video that was encoded by a consumer engaged in a personal and non-commercial activity and/or was obtained from a video provider licensed to provide AVC video. No license is granted or shall be implied for any other use. Additional information may be obtained from MPEG-LA, LLC. See http://www.mpegla.com
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MediaLive may contain Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital Plus, which are protected under international and U.S. copyright laws as unpublished works. Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital Plus are confidential and proprietary to Dolby Laboratories. Their reproduction or disclosure, in whole or in part, or the production of derivative works therefrom without the express permission of Dolby Laboratories is prohibited. © Copyright 2003-2015 Dolby Laboratories. All rights reserved.
